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Lawrence as part of a The Jewish Star continuing discussion Rabbi Berel Wein and series sponsored by criminal defense attorthe Destiny Foundaney Benjamin Brafman tion and Five Towns agreed in a conversation shuls. They touched on on Sunday that Jews a range of subjects and should be less judgementlife experiences. al of each other. They spoke about “The Chofetz Chaim media bias, presidenwas right,â€? Brafman said, tial politics, the growth “the biggest problem we of Orthodox Judiasm have is loshon hara.â€? in the United States, Referring to his expeand the safety of Jews rience with clients under around the world. legal attack, Brafman On that issue, Rabsaid “I think it’s a failing in the Jewish community 5DEEL %HUHO :HLQ OHIW DQG DWWRUQH\ %HQMDPLQ %UDIPDQ DW &RQ bi Wein expressed opthat doesn’t give people JUHJDWLRQ %HWK 6KDORP RQ 6XQGD\ 7KH -HZLVK 6WDU (G :HLQWURE timism while Brafman was downbeat. the beneďŹ t of the doubt.â€? “The menace we are living through now, the world Poor perceptions the larger community has of ethical failings among Orthodox Jews can be partly traced doesn’t seem to care,â€? Brafman said. “I am pessimistic.â€? Rabbi Wein responded: “This is the ďŹ rst time in 2,000 to the way we ourselves view such allegations, he said. The two appeared at Congregation Beth Shalom in years that Jews are not defenseless. And anybody that is coming to stab a Jew is really on a suicide mission. That eventually sinks in.â€? U.S. presidential candidates were not given a positive review. It “is not a form of Torah JudaThe Jewish Star President Obama may be Leading rabbis in Agudath Israel ism,â€? they said. the smartest president ever, While the statement targeted of America moved Monday to furbut he is not a friend of Isther distance what has been referred three speciďŹ c institutions —Yeshivat rael, Brafman said. Some to as Open Orthodoxy from norma- Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, of the candidates “are not and International Rabbinic Fellowtive Orthodox Judaism. smart and say all the right The Moetzes Gedolei HaTo- ship — it is not limited to them. words on cue, [but] can Open Orthodoxy is frequently asrah of America (Council of Sages), they deliver?â€? Agudath’s highest rabbinic body, sociated with Rabbi Avi Weiss, who “Israel is my issue,â€? Brafproclaimed that Open Orthodoxy recently retired as spiritual leader of man said. “Nixon may have “reject[s] the basic tenets of our the Hebrew Academy of Riverdale been a real criminal, but faith, particularly the authority of and established the two yeshivot during the Yom Kippur war censured in Monday’s proclamation. the Torah and its Sages.â€? he saved Isreal.â€?

fore they moved there from East New York in 1956, at the urging of her father-in-law, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky. Rabbi Herschel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere began Sunday’s service with a recitation of tehillim; Rabbi Kamenetzky was founding rabbi of the now 55-year-old shul. At the lavaya, Rabbi Kamenetzky recalled that after the couple moved to the Five Towns, any thought of returning to the more familiar and yiddishe Brooklyn was pushed aside with the knowledge that “the Torah was given in the midbar [and we] have an obligation� to bring Torah to a place where it was lacking. Now that the Rebbetzin has gone to her menucha, “the world doesn’t stop, [it] continues with Continued on page 16

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